ST. LOUIS — Four of the world's leading botanical institutions have started a catalog of every plant on the globe, with plans to make the inventory of at least 400,000 species available for free online by 2020.
Missouri Botanical Garden, other institutions to catalog world's plants
Monday, April 23, 2012 | 2:20 p.m. CDT
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